News and Notices

Decca is delighted to announce the signing of composer Eric Whitacre. With this global deal Whitacre joins an elite handful of composers with an exclusive, long-term recording contract on a major label.   Whitacre will record his debut Decca album “Light & Gold” in London at the beginning of August with a choral group to […]

LONDON — It’s “girl power” in Britain all over again, but this time via cassocks and choir music instead of sequins and pop songs. Isabel Suckling, 12, has broken an almost exclusively male singing tradition to become the first choir girl to be signed by Decca the record label, whose parent company is also home […]

MANSFIELD – Peggy Dettwiler, professor of Music and director of Choral Activities at Mansfield University, was honored with the 2010 Elaine Brown Award for Choral Excellence at the American Choral Directors Association of Pennsylvania annual summer conference on Aug. 2 in State College.   The award is presented “to an individual for outstanding lifelong work […]

The 79th North American Festival of Wales (aka Gwyl Gymreig Gogledd America) will be held in Portland at the Doubletree Hotel at Lloyd Center from September 2nd through the 5th. Wales is famous for its music and to help celebrate the Welsh culture in song, the festival has invited the male choir, Côr Godre’r Aran, […]

Plainfield, NJ — An award-winning city youth choir and Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs are thinking big when it comes to addressing the issue of local violence. Really, really big. H.E.R.I.T.A.G.E. (Helping to Enhance Resources by Incorporating The Arts to Gain Education) choir leaders and the mayor said they hope to draw as many as 10,000 people […]

Have you found yourself wondering lately what’s going on in the world of choirs? Yes, you were just saying that the other day? Wonderful, we have two to tell you about. First, there is Scala & Kolacny Brothers, a 60-person Belgian girls’ choir getting some traction on the Internet, thanks to the trailer for “The […]